Genetic engineering: Why aren't ALL Vorta as smart as Bashir?

[MacLeod]

If I remember correctly, they also had Vorta doctors trying to sure the section 31 disease. So either the Vorta must also be bred to have (some) research skills -or perhaps a certain subset of all Vorta-, which would probably require independent thinking to a certain degree, but in a different way than a political administrator would need, or the Dominion tried just to make do with what they got.

Well Doctors could in theory be used to create diseases as well as cure them i.e. The Quickening virus

 

[STEPhon IT]

Remember what I just said...Eris needed that ability for her undercover work as a spy.

For all that Sisko, Quark and the rest of them knew, Eris was a helpless prisoner whose natural telekenetic ability was being suppressed by the "collar" (which of course was actually fake). The collar - and the telekenesis - was just an excuse, to give Quark something to do to save her, so she could help them escape and take her back to DS9.

Most Vorta don't need telekenesis, because they are always accompanied by Jem'Hadar troops in the field.

Most Vorta??? How many Vorta's had we seen on the series???

The telekinesis existed because we saw it and the new writers simply forgot it or ignored what was previously done. Still the way the show was ridiculously constructed later between the 4th through 7th seasons with all the war loving; it was a missed opportunity to increase the body count by having Vorta blasting energy bolts at Federation victims.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Most Vorta??? How many Vorta's had we seen on the series???

Why do they all need it? Are the Vorta another monolithic species?